Jon Stewart

And then we'll have President Zelensky wants to make a deal, and Putin doesn't want to make the deal.

It's a very difficult balance.

When Russia's ready, Ukraine's not.

When Ukraine's ready, Russia's not.

You're the greatest negotiator in the world, and you're saying that it's difficult to bring together two differing sides with competing interests?

If only there was a word for closing that gap.

A person who could help close it.

I don't know, a gap-a-closenator.

But that's, by the way, that's the dirty little secret in all of this, isn't it?

Donald Trump isn't actually a master gap-a-closinator.

Negotiation is about bringing parties of disparate interests into an agreement that understands each other's positions and resolves those differences with compromises that advance shared goals.

Whereas Donald Trump's gift

is in not doing that.

Trump's singular gift is in manufacturing the animus and division that actually makes negotiated settlements so difficult, yet so necessary in this world.

That's his happy place.

But the Democrats voted against all of that, but we call them Democrats.

Democrats?

My God, sir, we may not get that peace deal you were talking about, but as a 1 a.m.

slop tweet, magnifico.

How in God's name does the world's most powerful man come up with gold like that?